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Instrument Three (Nat Chard)

Instrument Three (Nat Chard)

Instrument Three (Nat Chard)

Instrument Three (Nat Chard)

Instrument Three (Nat Chard)

Instrument Three (Nat Chard)

Looking through some photographs I found some of the stereoscopic shots I had made of the instruments. Here are a few of Instrument Three.

See also:

https://natchard.com/2011/09/14/drawing-instrument-three/

https://natchard.com/2011/12/26/more-instrument-three/

To view the images in three dimensions, go cross-eyed until you can register one image over the other. You may need to reduce the size of the images a little and perhaps tilt your head a little to keep the horizons together. When you have the image, try to relax to get the full stereoscopic depth.

House

A couple of stereoscopic views of a model for a house. It is a sanitised version of the project due to the   circumstances that led to this model. The original ceiling became part of another model – I just came across these pictures that I took a while ago as it was sitting on my desk and I threw a couple of pieces of MDF on for the snaps. There are lots of missing pieces, to be held by the white steel armature.

House

Cold Bog Diorama

While I was digging out the photographs of the Big Horn Sheep diorama I came across this pair I took of the Cold Bog Diorama, also at the Yale Peabody Museum  (also by James Perry Wilson). You can see more about this diorama here and here. In the second of these links is an assembly of Wilson’s survey slides. Here (below) is the same assembly done in Bridge/Photoshop, somewhat dissolving the frames and compensating for the faceted picture plane as Wilson’s Dual Grid method would.

Cold Bog Diorama survey

See two posts below for advice on viewing stereoscopic pairs (for the top image).

Big Horn Sheep side view

This is the view I mentioned in the previous post. It is hard to see the form of the diorama shell. It curves towards the viewer quite gently on the left, where it is closer to the viewer, and sharply to the right where it is further away. The pictorial information suggests almost the opposite, so your consciousness is struggling with the assembly. There is a similar problem with the floating shadows from instrument six, which do things that shadows are not supposed to do. We believe shadows so implicitly that we try and put them back where they should be, even though we perceive them to be floating in space.

Usual process for resolving the stereoscopic image (See the post below if you are new to the blog).

Big Horn Sheep (normal)

Big Horn Sheep (mirrored)

Here are two more views of the Big Horn Sheep group at the Yale Peabody Museum, with a background painting by James Perry Wilson. The top view is the right way round for the diorama and the lower one is mirrored – the correct way round for the original site near Banff in the Canadian Rockies. Again, if anyone recognises the exact location I would be grateful to hear from you.

It is hard to see the curve of the background shell in these views so I will assemble a slightly sideways stereoscopic view to see if that helps, and will post it if it does.

Employ the usual technique to resolve the stereoscopic images – make them small enough so that when you go cross eyed you can register the same sheep over each other when you go cross-eyed. You will see three images as you do this – concentrate on the middle one and try to relax. You can buy glasses (lorgnettes) to help resolve them and these definitely help when the images are larger, but I find I get a better three dimensionality when working without them.

 

Study for second body project (Nat Chard)

Study for second body project (Nat Chard)

A couple of studies I made before the second body project, before deciding to work with available technology (as far as possible). As with the earlier pairs of drawings in this blog, they are stereoscopic pairs so size them small enough so that you can resolve them when you go cross eyed.